Empowering Voices: New Paths in Literary Translation
Description: While many works of literature have been translated across the globe, there are still many texts that have been neglected in translation studies. If we compare Germans Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm to Ion Creanga, a 19th century Moldovan/Romanian author who adapted some of their stories into Romanian, we can recognize at once that untranslated voices can marginalize literary communities. Creanga’s “Capru cu trei iezi” (or The Goat and Her Three Kids), an adaptation of “The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats” by the Brothers Grimm, has been told to every Romanian child at bedtime since the turn of the 20th century, and yet, most outside of the country have not heard his version.
